So that's that. I made it through this season, and if you are reading this, so did you. Congratulations! It isn't easy to stay interested in a team that fell flat on its face from Game 1 onward. I want to thank each of you that occasionally checked in and read my ramblings. I hope it somehow made the season a little more fun.
I wish I had some insightful and poignant words about this Blue Jays season, but truthfully and sadly, I'm kind of glad it is over. The reality is it sucks to have such high hopes and to have them trampled and over and over again for 162 games.
There are no guarantees in baseball. Seasons with great expectations can fall way short just as easy as unexpected successful ones can occur seemingly out of nowhere. Just because the Jays now have the second longest playoff drought in all of the major North American professional sports (Royals have the longest) doesn't mean 2014 can't be our year.
I mean if I told you at the beginning of the year that the Jays would lose 90 games, the Angels would be below .500, but that Cleveland would be in the playoffs who would have believed me? Or that my beloved Pirates would be in and that the Washington Nationals would be out? Of course not; that's what makes sports enjoyable - the unexpected moments and results. Of course you have to take the good with the bad. So given all "the bad" that occurred this year, here's hoping that next year we are due for "some good".
So that's it, I'm shutting this baby down after 45 entries and it is a bit of a relief. It wasn't always easy to muster the enthusiasm, but I'm glad I undertook the exercise. Does this disastrous season mean that I won't follow closely through the winter as the Jays try to adjust their roster or buy tickets next year or look hopefully to February and then Opening Day? Of course not. I love this game and I love this team. I'm sure by November I will feel similar to Jack:
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